A group of toddlers sporting khaki bottoms and navy blue polo shirts showed off their pipes -- and new uniforms -- as they sang the alphabet song in unison recently at the Head Start & Children's Services Center on Northeast Third Street. This location is Palm Beach County's first Head Start center to enforce the use of uniforms this fall. There are 11 centers of the federally funded preschool program that serve about 2,050 children in the county. "That was my dream for five to six years," center manager Lena Rahming said about instituting uniforms.

For those who miss the Air & Sea Show in Fort Lauderdale, another display of military power will be staged at Homestead Air Reserve Base over the weekend. The Wings Over Homestead Air Show features the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team. F-18 and F-15 fighter jets also will perform loops, dives and rolls. Admission is free. Gates open at 8 a.m. Planes will perform from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. The show attracted more than 200,000 people last year.

A group of toddlers sporting khaki bottoms and navy blue polo shirts showed off their pipes -- and new uniforms -- as they sang the alphabet song in unison recently at the Head Start & Children's Services Center on Northeast Third Street. This location is Palm Beach County's first Head Start center to enforce the use of uniforms this fall. There are 11 centers of the federally funded preschool program that serve about 2,050 children in the county. "That was my dream for five to six years," center manager Lena Rahming said about instituting uniforms.

Remember back in preschool when you learned the primary colors? Red was red. Black was black. And your parents could order clothes from a catalog easily. Boy, are those days over. Now, no one dares use a boring name like yellow. By order of marketing gurus everywhere, it seems it was decided: to be chic, color names must be obscure. Thus, this year we have the Eddie Bauer holiday preview book, which includes "tobacco" cardigans (not smoking jackets, merely dark brown sweaters); "maritime" corduroy pants (navy blue)

So a University of Florida communications researcher conducting a study for her doctoral dissertation discovers that "you are what you wear." No kidding! I conducted an inadvertent study on the same topic a few years ago myself, and if you think that`s a prelude to my all-time favorite story, you`re right. It`s the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the news reports about Erika Engstrom`s attempt to correlate the effects of a communicator`s sex and clothing with perceptions of the communicator`s credibility.

DANIA -- The team colors are a motley wash of red, orange, green, yellow and sky blue -- colors more suited for a rainbow than the mismatched uniforms of a baseball team. If a uniform gives a team its identity, then the Carver Ranches Bears are a faceless group, bound only by the navy blue hats with the letter "B" on the front and the desire to play baseball. That desire to play hardball and not softball has seen the Bears through a troubling season. For 16 years they were the Fort Lauderdale Superstars under manager Charlie Rhodes.

For those who miss the Air & Sea Show in Fort Lauderdale, another display of military power will be staged at Homestead Air Reserve Base over the weekend. The Wings Over Homestead Air Show features the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and the U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team. F-18 and F-15 fighter jets also will perform loops, dives and rolls. Admission is free. Gates open at 8 a.m. Planes will perform from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. The show attracted more than 200,000 people last year.

He joined the Navy for one reason: "I wanted to see the ocean." But most of the water Petty Officer Shaun McGinnis has seen in uniform has been from the cockpit of a 33-foot river boat. The 27-year-old Coshocton, Ohio, native is a "brown water sailor," part of an exclusive and often overlooked component of the Navy, the Riverine Squadrons. The service's three squadrons, each made up of about 250 sailors and a dozen heavily-armed river boats, are descendants of the Swift Boats that plied the Mekong Delta and other waterways of Vietnam three decades ago. Today's Brown Water Navy also patrols inland rivers, and has seen duty in Iraq.

He joined the Navy for one reason: "I wanted to see the ocean." But most of the water Petty Officer Shaun McGinnis has seen in uniform has been from the cockpit of a 33-foot river boat. The 27-year-old Coshocton, Ohio, native is a "brown water sailor," part of an exclusive and often overlooked component of the Navy, the Riverine Squadrons. The service's three squadrons, each made up of about 250 sailors and a dozen heavily-armed river boats, are descendants of the Swift Boats that plied the Mekong Delta and other waterways of Vietnam three decades ago. Today's Brown Water Navy also patrols inland rivers, and has seen duty in Iraq.

A group of toddlers sporting khaki bottoms and navy blue polo shirts showed off their pipes -- and new uniforms -- as they sang the alphabet song in unison recently at the Head Start & Children's Services Center on Northeast Third Street. This location is Palm Beach County's first Head Start center to enforce the use of uniforms this fall. There are 11 centers of the federally funded preschool program that serve about 2,050 children in the county. "That was my dream for five to six years," center manager Lena Rahming said about instituting uniforms.

A group of toddlers sporting khaki bottoms and navy blue polo shirts showed off their pipes -- and new uniforms -- as they sang the alphabet song in unison recently at the Head Start & Children's Services Center on Northeast Third Street. This location is Palm Beach County's first Head Start center to enforce the use of uniforms this fall. There are 11 centers of the federally funded preschool program that serve about 2,050 children in the county. "That was my dream for five to six years," center manager Lena Rahming said about instituting uniforms.

Remember back in preschool when you learned the primary colors? Red was red. Black was black. And your parents could order clothes from a catalog easily. Boy, are those days over. Now, no one dares use a boring name like yellow. By order of marketing gurus everywhere, it seems it was decided: to be chic, color names must be obscure. Thus, this year we have the Eddie Bauer holiday preview book, which includes "tobacco" cardigans (not smoking jackets, merely dark brown sweaters); "maritime" corduroy pants (navy blue)

By DAVID O'BRIEN Staff Writer and Staff writer Dave Brousseau contributed to this report, January 15, 1997

It's difficult to say what's more remarkable: that Dan Marino needed only 157 games to reach 300 career touchdown passes or that Bill Bodenhamer was paid only $250 to design the original Dolphins logo in 1965. Marino and Bodenhamer, the Miami graphic designer who drew the leaping, helmeted mammal that became a cash cow, were on hand Tuesday for the unveiling of the Dolphins' revamped logo and uniforms at the team's training facility. The first thing one noticed when punter John Kidd and wide receiver Fred Barnett strode out in the new uniforms was how much they looked like the old uniforms.

So a University of Florida communications researcher conducting a study for her doctoral dissertation discovers that "you are what you wear." No kidding! I conducted an inadvertent study on the same topic a few years ago myself, and if you think that`s a prelude to my all-time favorite story, you`re right. It`s the first thing that popped into my mind when I read the news reports about Erika Engstrom`s attempt to correlate the effects of a communicator`s sex and clothing with perceptions of the communicator`s credibility.

It was the preflight pep talk that convinced me this venture would really be out of the ordinary. "By your right side is the airsickness bag," the man said as he kept strapping me into the rear seat of the two-seat cockpit. "You can`t take your notebook, because you won`t be able to hold onto it anyway, and we don`t want it flying around the cockpit hitting the pilot. "You will be flying at 6Gs (six times the force of gravity), so the blood will be rushing to your head." Tell me something -- when was the last time you got preflight instructions like that on Eastern or United?

DANIA -- The team colors are a motley wash of red, orange, green, yellow and sky blue -- colors more suited for a rainbow than the mismatched uniforms of a baseball team. If a uniform gives a team its identity, then the Carver Ranches Bears are a faceless group, bound only by the navy blue hats with the letter "B" on the front and the desire to play baseball. That desire to play hardball and not softball has seen the Bears through a troubling season. For 16 years they were the Fort Lauderdale Superstars under manager Charlie Rhodes.